I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.

- Philip Reeve

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be…

- Philip Reeve

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last;…

- Philip Reeve

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

- Philip Reeve

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

- Philip Reeve

Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed …

- Philip Reeve

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

- Philip Reeve

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themsel…

- Philip Reeve

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be mis…

- Philip Reeve